The environmental education program which a university museum carries out for protection of Japanese mudskipper Periophthalmus modestus.

日本弹涂鱼在2007年被环境省的《河口水域和淡水鱼类红色名录》列为半濒危物种。关于广岛县弹涂鱼的信息极为稀少。因此，在广岛县的红色数据书（2004年）中没有公布。调查了秀丽隐翅虫的研究现状。我们具体报道了在广岛县典型的滩涂中弹涂鱼的危急情况。研究结果通过大学博物馆通过环境教育计划提供给许多人。通过该项目，人们认识到了滩涂的生物多样性和自我净化能力的重要性，并展示了利用大学博物馆的调查研究和交流性进行环境教育的例子，如发表在广岛县的RedData Book（2011）上。

Japanese mudskipper Periophthalmus modestusis specified for a semi- endangered species by red list(2007) the estuarine water and freshwater fishes of the Ministry of the Environment. Information of themudskipper in Hiroshima Prefecture is extremely scarce. Therefore, it is not published in red data book(2004) on Hiroshima Prefecture. We surveyed present condition of P. modestus. We report concretelythat a critical situation exists for the mudskipper intheir typical tidal flat in Hiroshima Prefecture.Research result was provided to the many people by the environmental education program through auniversity museum. It was well-known to the importance of the biodiversity and self-purification abilityof a tidal flat through the program, and the example of the environmental education which utilized thesurveillance study and communicativity of a university museum, such as being published to the RedData Book (2011) on Hiroshima Prefecture, was shown.